Dutchboy

In theory yes. I just got some stupid letter from the insurance company saying that I might not be covered. I wish they weren't trying the standard insurance company BS of delay and deny. I would really help me to be able to move on if I could get closure with the insurance and buy something else.

The valve definitely broke off. Not sure if that was the initial failure or what. It was a Stratus Subarau EA-81 engine. 100 hp, low fuel burn, liquid cooled. Only about 80 hours on the engine!

I would like to apologize for not having a hot chick available at Atlanta Air Salvage for the photos. No the entire airplane is a loss. There are many salvagable parts, including the avionics, but the airframe and engine is history. Here is a picture from the landing site.

Some pictures from the teardown the NTSB did of my airplane engine today.

Don't know anyone hiring in Chicago. I have hired a few hundred people in the computer industry back when I had a real job. I recommend you list all your technical qualifications along with years of experience at the top of your resume. Emphasise your accomplishments and technology used in each job, but don't ramble forever. People get bored after reading your novel resume and they will throw it away. If you want to send me your resume for ideas, feel free.

They go to the air salvage lot. There is such a place south of Atlanta where my plane is supposed to go. I'm sure the first thing they'll do is yank out the avionics. I would like to at least get the data plate off the tail. Technically, I no longer own it, it belongs to the insurance company. Of course, they have yet to pay me for it!

As of 9:20am on Monday I am no longer the owner of an airplane. I had an engine failure while flying my homebuilt over rough terrain. I walked away (OK ran) with only minor injuries, but my poor little plane looks like a total loss.

Hopefully the weather will allow you to try her out this weekend. I'll be freezing my butt off in upstate New York this weekend.

11. A measurable percentage of active forum members jumped at Skydive ATL (me, mouth, yingjowmama, ...)

I'm flying my homebuilt airplane down the the Florida Keys that weekend, so no jumping for me.

One of my students in based in Knoxville, and was going to this same breakfast. He told me ATC informed him of other traffic in the area and said "he appears to be landing". He later figured out that this was the plane that landed on the highway, without fuel, and with no communication to ATC.

You are not alone. There are quite a few Georgia skydivers wandering around this board. Most jump in Rome (me, yingjowmama, jon, ...) or Thomaston (Tim, aufreefly, mouth...).

Decades after they were discontinued to make way for more modern designs, the legendary de Havilland Beaver and Otter bush planes could soon resume production. Beaver Aircraft Canada has assumed the type certificate for the aircraft -- as well as an amphibian called the Tri-Gull. The company is down to the short strokes in setting up a full-fledged manufacturing facility in a former truck factory in Kelowna, B.C. Service, engineering support and training will be done at the Vernon Regional Airport, about 35 miles from the factory. "It will be a wholly-built B.C. plane," said company spokesman Mark Sager. "We want it to be a real Canadian product."

Perhaps Chris & HH could get together to have a shared forum that is accessible easily from either sight.

Yep, was the one I built. I did finally finish it, after only 5.5 years. I have over 60 hours on it already. I want to get a couple hundred hours on it this year.

No beer owed as it wasn't skydiving related. In fact, the guy who inspected my plane knew I was a skydiver so he made it a limitation that I could never use it for jumping! I was at 800 feet AGL. My plane is not a great glider. It will glide about half as far as a Cessna.

Of course, I just -assumed- this was at his home airport RYY -- a towered airport. And if ya got time to make a position report of any type, I'm thinkin' declaring isn't too bad an idea. Heck just the fact you said "engine out" is actually a form of declaring. It would certainly be taken as such at any normal towered airport. I do most of my instruction flights out of RYY, but am based at VPC, which is where this happened. Not being sure that I was being heard I stated I was making "an immediate landing on runway 1". One of the guys from the FBO called me after I was off the runway to make sure everything was OK. He heard my call and saw the dead stick landing. I was mostly concerned with the Georgia Tech student who was trying to land the wrong way. I'm glad that he figured it out. His instructor said that it was the student that figured out he was going the wrong way. The AWOS at VPC is known to give bad wind numbers. I've seen the winds be 10 kts and reported as calm.

I was in a Zenith CH601HDS Super Zodiac that I built myself.

Spark. I had a low voltage warning and so I was heading toward the airport to land. Lost the engine on base. I'm glad I didn't extend my base to follow the Cessna 172 (from RYY) flying the 747 pattern. I opted to just slow way down instead. My engine does not have magnetos, so electrical system is not optional. I'm based at VPC, not RYY. I do most of my training out of RYY, but I won't pay their ridiculous prices for my personal aircraft.

Had an aviation first today. Not a skydiving first though. Had my first real engine failure. Thankfully I was able to make it back to the airport. I even had enough momentum left to get off the runway before somebody ran me over.

It isn't just hours, but what you do with them for people looking for airlines, etc. 1000 hours flying a C182 up and down won't get you an airline job. What most airline bound pilots really want is twin time and turbine time. To fly these planes at most DZ's you need to have enough experience to get hired at an airline to qualify for their insurance. Flying jumpers doesn't pay. The pay is so low that you can actually make more doing flight instruction. You can also log "better" flight time when doing virtually anything other than flying jumpers. I know a guy that has over 3000 hours multi time, mostly turbine (twin otter), and nobody would hire him because he has no instrument or cross-country time. I know another guy who owns the C182 a local dropzone leases. He never flys his own plane because he can make six times the money per hour doing AFF and tandem jumps. The only thing flying jumpers would do for a forloughed pilot is allow him to have recent flight time should they ever call him back. Don't get me wrong. I like to fly jumpers, and have taken most opportunities to fly them. I'm not shooting for an airline career, however. (Really, I actually like being a flight instructor).

Anything related to the "issues" with that airplane or just stupidity? The FAA inspector has the cause as "inconclusive". The nose gear sheared off cleanly which may have been mechanical, but maybe not.

Speaking of ratings..... Are you ever going to finish yours? BTW, someone crashed Mike's 172 last Friday at Cartersville. So we're without a plane at the moment.

I've been here for 8 years and love it. You can live for cheap if you know where to live. The biggest problem with living 30 minutes from ATL is that it is not the best part of town. You could certainly move there cheap enough, but you might not like it. If you only care about being close to the airport you could live 30 miles west or south of town for cheap the and commute would be good. There are 4 DZ's around Atlanta: Atlanta Air Sportz: 55 Northwest ASC: almost in Alabama Monroe: 40 miles Northeast Skydive Atlanta: 65 South I haven't made it to Monroe yet. Airportz and Skydive Atlanta are both good depending on where you live and the atmosphere you prefer.

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